Definition of rest

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Rest (v. t.) To place, as on a support; to cause to lean..

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Anecdote :: Anecdote (n.) A particular or detached incident or fact of an interesting nature; a biographical incident or fragment; a single passage of private life.
Sabbath :: Sabbath (n.) The seventh year, observed among the Israelites as one of rest and festival..
Xylophone :: Xylophone (n.) An instrument common among the Russians, Poles, and Tartars, consisting of a series of strips of wood or glass graduated in length to the musical scale, resting on belts of straw, and struck with two small hammers. Called in Germany strohfiedel, or straw fiddle..
Jay :: "Jay (n.) Any one of the numerous species of birds belonging to Garrulus, Cyanocitta, and allied genera. They are allied to the crows, but are smaller, more graceful in form, often handsomely colored, and usually have a crest..
Redintegrate :: Redintegrate (v. t.) To make whole again; a renew; to restore to integrity or soundness.
Harbor :: Harbor (n.) A station for rest and entertainment; a place of security and comfort; a refuge; a shelter.
Comb :: Comb (n.) The naked fleshy crest or caruncle on the upper part of the bill or hood of a cock or other bird. It is usually red.
Restorationist :: Restorationist (n.) One who believes in a temporary future punishment and a final restoration of all to the favor and presence of God; a Universalist.
Side :: Side (v. i.) To embrace the opinions of one party, or engage in its interest, in opposition to another party; to take sides; as, to side with the ministerial party..
Incumbent :: Incumbent (a.) Lying; resting; reclining; recumbent; superimposed; superincumbent.
Trite :: Trite (a.) Worn out; common; used until so common as to have lost novelty and interest; hackneyed; stale; as, a trite remark; a trite subject..
Arrest :: Arrest (v. t.) To rest or fasten; to fix; to concentrate.
Strait :: Strait (a.) Fig.: A condition of narrowness or restriction; doubt; distress; difficulty; poverty; perplexity; -- sometimes in the plural; as, reduced to great straits..
Restful :: Restful (a.) Giving rest; freeing from toil, trouble, etc..
Springer :: Springer (n.) The impost, or point at which an arch rests upon its support, and from which it seems to spring..
Astrict :: Astrict (v. t.) To bind; to constrain; to restrict; to limit.
Holdback :: Holdback (n.) Check; hindrance; restraint; obstacle.
Unappropriate :: Unappropriate (v. t.) To take from private possession; to restore to the possession or right of all; as, to unappropriate a monopoly..
Ungovernable :: Ungovernable (a.) Not governable; not capable of being governed, ruled, or restrained; licentious; wild; unbridled; as, ungovernable passions..
Cancer :: Cancer (n.) Formerly, any malignant growth, esp. one attended with great pain and ulceration, with cachexia and progressive emaciation. It was so called, perhaps, from the great veins which surround it, compared by the ancients to the claws of a crab. The term is now restricted to such a growth made up of aggregations of epithelial cells, either without support or embedded in the meshes of a trabecular framework..
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